Miscellaneous

Brews You Can Use I sat down with a bottle of wine and my miniature Big Carl glass last night to start this post. It'd been awhile since I drank wine. It went down smoothly. I have a small headache this morning, but nothing bad. I felt good

Longevity People are healthiest in the blue zones. The top five: Sardinia, Okinawa, Nicoya (Costa Rica), Loma Linda (the country of California), and Ikaria (Greece). Link [http://time.com/5160475/blue-zones-healthy-long-lives/]. What do people in blue zones have in common? Lots of constant activity: > They live in environments that

Well, very good night for the Democrats. Plus 32 in the house was a huge victory, but minus 3 in the Senate tarnishes it. Blue wave? Nah. Blue wavish perhaps, but no wave. It's more troubling that very left-wing candidates are gaining traction. History repeats itself. We have

More Miscellaneous Rambling If you haven't heard, it's election day. Get out and vote. The more people that vote, the more people that vote. Somehow, that's supposed to be a good thing, though for the life of me, I can't figure out

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, a good weekend comes to a close. Middle daughter, Meg, placed 12th at the state cross-country meet on Saturday, garnishing her attention from an assortment of D1 and D2 colleges. Michigan rolled over the Pedophiles at State University, a program that shouldn't even exist in

> "This is THE most flawed way we could POSSIBLY rank college football teams and it's that flawed by a wide margin."@JoelKlatt [https://twitter.com/joelklatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] sounds off on the CFP committee rankings: pic.twitter.com/SHixLFnntD [https://t.co/SHixLFnntD]

BYCU Well, I hope to be able to drink tonight. It's been a rough week, health-wise. Bad food poisoning Sunday night; 2.5 hours in a dental chair on Wednesday. I was barely among the living on Thursday, just going through the motions. I'm hoping to

All Saints Rambling Well, trick-or-treating is over: 25 years. Over. And I must say: I'm okay with it. I thought I'd be melancholy, but I guess that, after hauling seven kids around for a quarter-century, I got my fill. I would've been happy to

> "Trump knows that immigration was the single most significant factor in his election. To maintain good standing with his constituency, he must stop that caravan." https://t.co/DXmakoeJvB > — The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 31, 2018 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1057436997264887810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]